Historica notitia rerum Boicarum : symbolis ac figuris aeneis illustrata : in funere Caroli VII. Romanorum Imperatoris semp. aug. virtutum triumpho, solemnium quondam occasione exequiarum, accommodata : cui accedit in fine oratio funebris in laudem optimi ejusdem Caesaris, anno 1745 habita
Historica notitia rerum Boicarum : symbolis ac figuris aeneis illustrata : in funere Caroli VII. Romanorum Imperatoris semp. aug. virtutum triumpho, solemnium quondam occasione exequiarum, accommodata : cui accedit in fine oratio funebris in laudem optimi ejusdem Caesaris, anno 1745 habita
The frontispiece, the title page, the folded plate and the full-page ill. are not part of signatures
Illustrations: engraved frontispiece portrait (bust and arms) of Charles VII by Georg Sigmund Rösch; one folded engraved plate (impression 44 x 25 cm) of the catafalque erected at the Theatiner Church in Munich (caption: ... MONACHII IN ELECTORALI TEMPLO CLERICORUM REGULARIUM ... ERECTUM) and 26 engraved full-page illustrations: twenty depicting emblems used in the funeral decorations and six depicting scenes from the life of Charles VII, all signed by Nikolaus Stuber and Franz Xaver Jungwierth
The text includes eulogies and descriptions of emblems
Library's copy is the first item bound with: Leich- und Lob-Red des weyland allerdurchläuchtigsten, grossmächtigsten, unüberwindlichsten Römischen Kaysers Caroli VII. ... / gehalten und vorgetragen von d. Joanne Edlweckh ... [München] : Allda gedruckt bey Johann Jacob Bötter ..., [1745?]
Binding: old half sheep, gilt tooled spine with label, old armorial bookplate inside the front cover, recent (20th cent.?) pencil scribbles on rear fly-leaf and inside the back cover
Notes
No Table of Contents. Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Foxing throughout book.